• unalivejoy
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    3515 hours ago

    FYI alt text only applies when the image fails to load. You can get hover text by adding quoted text after the url.

    ![alt text](https://url/image.png "hover text")
    
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    KDE Logo alt text

    • Batman
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      27 hours ago

      I am using Thunder, if I tap the image for both of yours (to make full screen) I can see the alt text on both. Not while I am in the post though, scrolling through replies.

      I may have to tap on more images from here on. Thanks to you both for the info and examples!

      • @[email protected]
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        39 hours ago

        Ok, I can’t imagine blind people able to use a mouse very well. So I also imagine they have a brail keyboard. But does that mean they are set up with speakers and a keyboard and they learn how to navigate a computer really slowly, and that modern webpages are very… Noisy?

        • @[email protected]
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          5 hours ago

          You can try the built-in screen reader/accessibility mode in your OS and blow your mind.

    • @Feathercrown
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      815 hours ago

      Neat. For me on mobile, the hover text takes precedence but they both work.

      • @[email protected]
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        1214 hours ago

        Voyager doesn’t seem to use the hover text at all. I think it should though, might make a post about it in their community.

        • @rtxn
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          411 hours ago

          Markdown features are extremely fragmented. Hover text might be a non-standard feature that not all markdown renderers can handle (or even a standard feature that’s omitted in some renderers).

        • @Feathercrown
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          113 hours ago

          That’s interesting. I’m on the default site ui for reference.